about
Morgan Moroney (he/him) is a lighting and video designer working across theatre, opera, dance and installation. Growing up on Kaurna land, he currently lives and works primarily on Gadigal land. He brings a distinct multidisciplinary approach to his practice, with a particular fascination for integrated-media live performance.
A graduate of NIDA, Morgan received the APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award for his design on Ghosts dir. Priscilla Jackman (NIDA, 2020). He has been nominated twice for a Sydney Theatre Award in Best Independent Lighting Design, for Cleansed (Redline, 2022) and Significant Other (New Theatre, 2021). In 2022, he was awarded an inaugural NIDA X Storytelling Futures grant to support the development of Collapsible – a work exploring XR technologies in a live performance space.
Morgan’s recent collaborations as Lighting Designer include The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia), Anatomy of a Suicide (Sugary Rum), Shack (ATYP) and Jali (Jubilee Street), as Video Designer: A Letter for Molly and Still Unqualified (Ensemble), as co-Lighting Designer: Cleansed (Maximillian Brown & Redline), as Lighting & Video Designer: CAMP (Siren Theatre & World Pride), A Practical Guide to Self-Defence (Merrigong & NTofP) and Art + Information (Seymour Centre). In March 2022, he joined Nick Schlieper as Assistant Lighting Designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia).
E: morgan@morganmoroney.com
awards
WINNER | NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant 2022
National Insitute of Dramatic Art, for Collapsible
WINNER | Emerging Designer for Live Performance 2021
Australian Production Design Guild, for Ghosts (NIDA 2020)
NOMINATION | Best Independent Lighting Design 2022
Sydney Theatre Awards, for Cleansed (Redline & Maximillian Brown)
NOMINATION | Best Independent Lighting Design 2021
Sydney Theatre Awards, for Significant Other (New Theatre)
media
Ghosts Process Interview - Australian Production Design Guild
Conjuring the Intangible: Reflections on process from a Lighting Designer - ADSR Zine, March 2022
Lighting and Video Designer’s Future Shines Bright - Department for the Arts & NIDA
upcoming projects
Lighting Designer | Suddenly Last Summer dir. Shaun Rennie | Ensemble Theatre
Lighting Designer | Clydes dir. Darren Yap | Ensemble Theatre
Lighting Designer | Mr Bailey’s Minder dir. Damien Ryan | Ensemble Theatre
selected credits
2023
co-Director, Lighting & co-Video Designer | Collapsible by Margaret Perry | NIDA X & Redline / essential workers | NIDA & Old Fitz Theatre
Lighting & Video Designer | CAMP dir. Kate Gaul | Siren Theatre Co, Seymour Centre & Sydney WorldPride | Reginald Theatre
Associate Video Designer | Kairos dir. & chor. Meryl Tankard | Sydney Festival 2023 & FORM | Carriageworks Bay 20
Associate Lighting Designer | Maureen: Harbinger of Death | Adelaide Festival
2022
Lighting Designer | The Barber of Seville dir. Priscilla Jackman | Opera Australia | National Tour 2022-23
Lighting Designer | Anatomy of a Suicide dir. Shane Anthony | Sugary Rum, Chopt Logic & Seymour Centre | Reginald Theatre
Lighting Designer | SHACK dir. Hayden Tonazzi | Australian Theatre for Young People | Rebel Theatre
Lighting Designer | Being Here Now & Uh Oh (Dance Double Bill) | Redline | Old Fitz Theatre
co-Lighting Designer | Cleansed dir. Dino Dimitriadis | Maximillian Brown & Redline, Old Fitz Theatre
Lighting/Video Designer | A Practical Guide to Self Defence dir. Dom Mercer | NToP & Merrigong | Lennox & Bruce Gordon Theatres
Lighting/Video Designer | Art + Information dir. Kate Gaul | Seymour Centre & USYD | Reginald Theatre
Lighting/Set Designer | Jali dir. Oliver Twist | Seymour Centre, Reginald Theatre & national tour
Video Designer | A Letter for Molly dir. Ursula Yovich | Ensemble
Video Designer | Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified dir. Janine Watson | Ensemble
Associate Lighting Designer | PPY22: Revealed | Sydney Dance Company | Carriageworks Bay 20
Associate Lighting Designer | King of Pigs | Critical Stages Touring
Associate Lighting Designer | Maureen: Harbinger of Death | Rising Festival & Darwin Festival
Assistant Video Designer | That Was Friday dir. Charley Sanders | House of Sand, Belco Arts Canberra
Assistant Lighting Designer | The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour dir. Simon Phillips | Opera Australia
2021
Assistant Video Designer | Jagged Little Pill AU | GWB Entertainment | Theatre Royal
Lighting Designer | Significant Other dir. Hayden Tonazzi | New Theatre
Lighting Designer | The Construct dir. Zebastian Hunter | Circus Monoxide & Quiet Riot | Bruce Gordon Theatre
Lighting Designer | Cool Pool Party 2: Graduation (workshop showing) | ban shakespeare | NIDA, Studio Theatre
Lighting Designer | The Twins dir. Terence Serio & Sarah Butler | Shark Island Institute | Reginald Theatre & national tour
co-Video Designer | Outdated dir. Mark Kilmurry | Ensemble
Lighting Associate | Othello dir. Damien Ryan | Sport for Jove | York Theatre & Riverside Theatre
Lighting Associate | The Tempest dir. Damien Ryan | Sport for Jove | York Theatre & Riverside Theatre
Video Associate | Claudel dir. Wendy Beckett chor. Meryl Tankard | Tinderbox | Sydney Opera House, Playhouse
Video Associate | Ernani dir. Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Opera Australia & Teatro Alla Scala | Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre
2020
Lighting/Video Designer | Ghosts dir. Priscilla Jackman | NIDA | Reg Grundy Studio
Lighting/Video Designer | ANTIGONICK dir. Zoë Hollyoak | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting Designer | And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens... dir. Liam McIlwain | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting Designer | The Cat dir. Amelia Burke | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting Designer | On My Own dir. Zoë Hollyoak (music video) | NIDA & Triple J
Lighting Designer | Everybody dir. Gabriel Fancourt | Cross Pollinate & bAKEHOUSE | King's Cross Theatre
Lighting Designer | Pit dir. Mikala Westall | sandpaperplane | Old 505 Theatre
Video Designer | Talkback dir. Elise Wilson | sandpaperplane | Blue Room Theatre
Lighting/Surtitle Designer | DavidDavis@ dir. Andrew McInnes (staged workshop) | Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Music Workshop
co-Designer & Producer | noise (audiovisual installation) | Articulate Project Space
2019
Lighting Designer | FAUST dir. Sam Trotman | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting Designer | A Respectable Wedding dir. Tait De Lorenzo | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting Designer | Inhabit (movement installation) | NIDA | Studio Theatre Substage
Video Designer | Marat/Sade dir. Gavin Robins & John Bashford | NIDA | Studio Theatre
Video Designer | håmlet - a newer australian play | ban shakespeare | Bondi Pavilion Theatre & here we are @ AGNSW
Associate Lighting Designer | This Bitter Earth dir. Riley Spadaro | New Theatre
co-Designer | Ophelia (video installation) | NIDA | Parade Theatre Sound Stage
2018 - preceding
Video Associate | Ex Machina dir. Finn Caldwell | NIDA | Space Theatre
Lighting/Video Designer | Hell Hath No Fury (Antigone + Machinal) | Forge Theatre
Lighting/Video Designer | Echoes of the Mask | Forge Theatre (Adelaide Fringe)
Photo by Andrew Fraser